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by hosh 2y ago
That's a lot of different kinds of definitions, some overlap, other disagree. Seems to me a similar problem with naming and categorizing -- whether it is something useful (as a framework for thinking through things), or for communicati
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by hosh 2y ago
I'm game. What is a city?
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It's those kinds of paradigmatic biases that someone has written the satire, "Nacirema", to illustrate how "everyone else is saying it" can lead to blind spots.
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by hosh 2y ago
And it follows: how much of the artifacts of our present civilization will last 3,000 years for future archaeologists and anthropologists?
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It depends on the material. Incas uses knots for record keeping. Those are not as durable as burned clay. In our current global civilization with advanced computing tech, magnetic tapes, cdroms, and hard drives won't last very long. Ma
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by hosh 2y ago
Agreed. Examples include the Inca civilization using knots to record complex information and accounts. Those won't last as long as burned clay.
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by hosh 2y ago
How does Göbekli Tepe change our understanding on the rise of civilizations, including Mesopotamia?
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I don't have proofs. I haven't gone into any level of rigor with any of this. Here is a recent example: https://files.spritely.institute/papers/petnames.html The idea of a naming system can be (1) decentraliz
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by hosh 2y ago
There's a lot of interesting discrete math that can supercharge programming at different levels of scale. What's pretty cool is that it reveals a layer of understanding when I watch my toddlers learn math from counting. One of the
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Discussion thread in the Erlang community proposing implementing io_uring for BEAM, security issues, and a digression comparing it to FreeBSD's kqueues https://erlangforums.com/t/erlang-io-uring-support/765&#x
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I have used remote dev machines just fine, but my workflow vastly differs from many of my coworkers: terminal-only spacemacs + tmux + mosh. I have a lot of CLI and TUI tools, and I do not use VScode at all. The main GUI app I run is a brows
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I was very disappointed with NYT’s coverage of the 2020 elections, and it has been difficult for me to take their reporting seriously since then. That they had their own workers striking is not a good look, yet unsurprising to me at this po
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by hosh 2y ago
"The Benefits of Imperfection: Biology, Society, and Beyond" looks interesting!
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It's connecting with the local community and ecology that will allow someone to really start making a difference. Given any place, there are people practicing permaculture and regenerative agriculture. These people are found in communi
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"Ecological desert" is more sensationalist than technical. I think they meant "wasteland". That more or less describes many areas depleted by industrial agriculture. There are also many people working on restoring and re
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Commercial real estate has been teetering on trigging the next Black Swan event for the past couple years. No one wants to be holding title to buildings that are vacant and not generating rent.
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For example, when Amazon looked to build HQ2, they were entertaining packages from municipalities, many of whom gave tax breaks for building HQ2 there. TSMC and Intel also shopped around the country for new fabs, a combination of geological
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by hosh 2y ago
Coming from Ruby and Elixir, Civet adds a lot of things I miss from those languages. I still have gripes about runtimes such as Nodejs, but I don't expect something like Civet to solve those.
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In Ruby and Elixir, it is implicit returns. That's always been like that, and people working with those languages don't have a problem with it. When I started writing Typescript, I was screaming internally at the explicit returns.
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by hosh 2y ago
I came from Ruby and Elixir. It is always implicit returns. When I started writing TypeScript, having to have explicit returns was my number 1 bug. People can adapt either way. You can write more concise code with implicit returns and &quot
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by hosh 2y ago
There's been a concerted effort to reset salary for tech workers in the past year or so, ever since Elon Musk kicked things off with the mass layoffs at Twitter. The default of Silicon Valley Bank didn't help, and neither did the
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The article talks about 18% of jobs in the US market are now remote.
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There are local politics involved where a company might have some kind of tax break or favorable leasing to offices. There are also municipalities concerned that having less workers in downtown areas would reduce economic activity with the
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At some point, you stop selling content, and you start selling an audience with a known demographic to advertisers. In such a market, the business is disincentivized to produce thoughtful content, and need to churn the bait the draw in the
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There is a whole lot more to this than just whether content creators or publishes should get paid, and whether there should be ad blockers (and whether they get paid). There are people who have been fed up by this because they remembered ho
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When you click on the example.com link, it takes you to a page within the site that shows a bunch of blurred out content, a "Accept Cookie" footer. If you try to leave, it asks you if you really want to leave.
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by hosh 2y ago
The smaller embedded micros are the target of CollapseOS, which is folded into DuskOS. The stage DuskOS is targeting is when we stop being able to have the ability to make new computers and new chips, and we start looking to salvage old one
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Gleam used to compile to Core Erlang (Erlang Intermediate Representation) but looks like it now compiles to pretty-printed Erlang. https://blog.lambdaclass.com/an-interview-with-the-creator-o...
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You could partner with someone who doesn’t suck and distribute seed bombs.
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There's an effort to port uxn to DuskOS ( https://duskos.org/ ). The goal here isn't to be maximally performant or memory efficient (though at this point, running uxn on DuskOS on certain architecture is faster than

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